The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 94
Senchan, the king of bards, when centuries six Had flowered and faded since the Birth Divine, Summoned in synod all the island bards, Demanding; ‘Is there who can yet recite That first of Erin’s songs, “The Tain”?’
Who acts: Erin · What happens: flower, fade, summon, demand, be, sing · To what, where: centuries, island bards, synod
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Erin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Senchan | Senchan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 flowered | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Senchan | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bards | case |
| 6 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 king | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Senchan | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 flowered | advmod |
| 9 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flowered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 centuries | flat |
| 11 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flowered | aux |
| 12 | flowered | flower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 recite | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 faded | cc |
| 14 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 flowered | conj |
| 15 | since | since | ADP | _ | 18 Divine | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Divine | det |
| 17 | Birth | Birth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Divine | compound |
| 18 | Divine | Divine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 faded | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Summoned | punct |
| 20 | Summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 flowered | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 synod | case |
| 22 | synod | synod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Summoned | obl |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 bards | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bards | det |
| 25 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bards | compound |
| 26 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Summoned | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Demanding | punct |
| 28 | Demanding | demand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 Summoned | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 Is | punct |
| 30 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 Is | punct |
| 31 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 recite | cop |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 Is | expl |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 recite | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 recite | aux |
| 35 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 36 recite | advmod |
| 36 | recite | recite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 37 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 recite | obj |
| 38 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 42 songs | advmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 songs | case |
| 40 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 songs | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 Erin | case |
| 42 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 recite | ccomp |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Tain | punct |
| 44 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 Tain | punct |
| 45 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Tain | det |
| 46 | Tain | Tain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 songs | appos |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 Tain | punct |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 36 recite | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 recite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flower | past · perfect · passive | centuries | Senchan vocative | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fade | participle | since the Birth Divine | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | summon | participle | all island bards | synod | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | gerund | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | can · present | yet | who nsubj; That obj; Erin's songs ccomp; recite property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sing | Erin | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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